I think my students would enjoy podcasting. I think they would enjoy professionally made podcasts more than the ones I would make. I think they would enjoy podcasts made by classmates. And I think they would enjoy video podcasts more than audio podcasts. I think that long podcasts would lose their interests. Here are some of the podcasts I think they would enjoy.
Grammar Girl, Princeton Review vocabulary, and the Discovery Channel videos.
It takes me a long time to do any kind of recording. I have used Audacity to record exams and I anlways make mistakes and have to re-record parts. I have tried to put audio to power points for math instruction for students who are absent and suspended so they don't fall behind but it takes me so long that I couldn't do it very often. I imagine the more I do it, the better I'd be. I think podcasting will be one of those summer-time things for me. I will have a lot of time to play around with it and try to get better at it.
What I'm finding while doing completing each stage of 23 Things is that I am enjoying many of the things I have learned more personally than professionally. I am in South Carolina right now and my step-daughter and I are sharing pictures on Flickr. In the same way, the podcasts I am interested in usually don't have anything to do with my job. And I am teaching resource room algebra, not my first or second choice of teaching assignments. So, I am drawn to English/language arts-related podcasts and I really can't use these this year in my teaching. Two podcasts that interested me are The Onion News and This American Life.
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